---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Eric Reeves <[email protected]> Date: Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 1:32 AM Subject: “Sudan and the U.S. Department of Justice: Moral myopia on a grand scale”---it's time to compel some clarity To:
*“Sudan and the U.S. Department of Justice: Moral myopia on a grand scale”---it's time to compel some clarity* * Eric Reeves* *The piece below concerns plans announced as of this date by the U.S. Justice Department for $3.84 billion <http://www.usvbnpp.com/frequently-asked-questions.aspx>, designated by the Federal District Court of Southern New York as the source of restitution for those Sudanese who suffered “direct and proximate” harm from the criminal laundering actions of French Banking giant BNP Paribas (years 2004 – 2012).* [image: bnp-paribas-branch] <http://sudanreeves.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/bnp-paribas-branch.jpg> *In the words of presiding Judge Lorna Schofield, restitution is due to Sudanese (and to a much lesser extent Cubans and Iranians) who were “directly and proximately harmed by PNB Paribas's criminal conduct." No one more clearly meets that criterion than Sudanese who remain on the ground in conflict regions of Sudan:* - *Sudan Tribune**, July 29, 2015* *http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article55857 <http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article55857>* - *Huffington Post**, July 30, 2015 (with all Web links)* *http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-reeves/sudan-and-the-obama-admin_b_7892136.html <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-reeves/sudan-and-the-obama-admin_b_7892136.html>* *If you agree with my assessment, tell the Justice Department as much. Presently, there is a great deal of evidence to suggest that DOJ simply wants the problem to go away, even as Sudanese suffer from the substantial shortfalls in funding for humanitarian efforts in Darfur, South Kordofan, Blue Nile, and the large refugee populations in Chad, Ethiopia, and South Sudan:* [image: Justice-Seal] <http://sudanreeves.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Justice-Seal.jpg> *Assistant Attorney General of the United States, Criminal Division, Leslie R. Caldwell* *U.S. Department of Justice/Criminal Division950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NWWashington, DC 20530-0001* *Email: **C**[email protected] <[email protected]>* *Website: http://www.justice.gov/criminal/contact-criminal-division <http://www.justice.gov/criminal/contact-criminal-division>* *Telephone: * *Department of Justice Main Switchboard | **202-514-2000 <202-514-2000>* *Criminal Division Citizen Phone Line | **202-353-4641 <202-353-4641>* -- Eric Reeves Smith College Northampton, MA 01063 413-585-3326 [email protected] Skype: ReevesSudan Website: www.sudanreeves.org *Compromising With Evil: An archival history of greater Sudan, 2007-2012 * www.CompromisingWithEvil.org <http://www.compromisingwithevil.org/> -- To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/d/forum/southsudankob View this message at https://groups.google.com/d/msg/southsudankob/topic-id/message-id For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "South Sudan Info - The Kob" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/SouthSudanKob. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/SouthSudanKob/CAJb14opJQHp1xSoVDxy_2co5Au8Gas0rmzi%2B5VHvWXshGJYX3Q%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
